I did a talk at a zine fest recently and only one person in the room had heard of #XraySpex. The band was fronted by teenaged Ethiopian-British, eccentric, bipolar, avant-garde, punk singer and songwriter #PolyStyrene who was born OTD in 1957. Her daughter, #CelesteBell made a documentary about her that came out in 2021. #punk #1977 #WomenInPunk #WomenOfColor

https://vimeo.com/551151303

In memory of the one and only Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, born on this day in 1957, Bromley, United Kingdom

Photo by Falcon Stuart

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Entzun / Listen (streaming):
https://punkirratia.net:8443/punk

In memory Poly Styrene

July 3rd 1957 - April 25, 2011

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescence (TOTP 23rd November 1978)

Remembering Poly Styrene, singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.

Poly died of metastatic breast cancer on 25 April 2011, at the age of 53

Julie Davis

48 years ago today
The unforgotten Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon, April 16, 1977.

Photos by Gus Stewart

47 years ago
Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at CBGB, New York, March 1978.

Photos by Ebet Roberts

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene
#xrayspex #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory

#NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime

X‐Ray Spex:
Oh Bondage Up Yours!

#XRaySpex

https://open.spotify.com/track/18WswjCcjs3vmz4qWNOrSC

A list of music genres and inspirations: #KateBush #FreeJazz #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #Radiohead #Filter #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #disco #HouseMusic #DeepX (defunct electronic label) #XraySpex (no relation to DeepX) #UA #punk #postpunk #techno #Zeuhl #GusGus #MatthewDear #HenryRollins #Mallsoft #Audacity #LMMS #sampling #Noh music #能 #intonarumori #MauriceRavel #JohnAdams #gamelan #SafetyScissors #Perfume (list will be expanded as I think of more!)

Recorded #OnThisDay 47 years ago:

X-ray Spex - Peel Session 1978

The complete session recorded on 20 February 1978 by X-ray Spex for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1.

Tracklist:

1. Art-I-Ficial (0:19)
2. I Am A Poseur (3:56)
3. Identity (6:33)
4. Genetic Engineering (10:41)

http://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/05/x-ray-spex-peel-session-1978.html

My buddy #DJShaxx had a special #AfroPunk edition of #LeftOfTheDial on #WMPG in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth! Includes #XRaySpex, #LivingColour, #ESG, and more!

Setlist:
https://spinitron.com/WMPG/pl/20215451/Left-of-the-Dial

Audio archives:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed1700/#
#WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #BlackMusicians #BlackHistory

47 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978

Polystyrene – gone but not forgotten

X-Ray Spex - I Am A Poseur

47 years ago
X-Ray Spex played at 'Front Row Festival', a three-week event at the Hope and Anchor, Islington, December 10, 1977

#xrayspex #punk

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r7tt5uscxcaj2csdbad6wts3/post/3lb2cnqcvks2k

47 years ago
Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex in November 1977 at the Marquee Club in London.

Photo by Caitriona Reed

Now a hop, skip and a jump on memory lane this Music Women Wednesday gets me to the mid-90s with a release that harks back to the eighties –

X-Ray Spex, "Peace Meal" (1995)

From 1995's "Conscious Consumers", from a re-formed band and a moderately mellower Poly Styrene (in tone; the lyrics still bite: "Not much difference between the cow and you …").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dwo0tZPuIU

#MusicWomenWednesday
#XRaySpex #PolyStyrene

46 years ago today
Germfree Adolescents is the debut album of English punk rock band X-Ray Spex, released on this day in 1978 featuring the singles "The Day the World Turned Dayglo", "Identity" and "Germ Free Adolescents"